Steam bake-pan.



No. 681,502. Patented Aug. 27, I90l. JESSE &. JACOB HEYNE.

STEAM BAKE PAN.

(Applicatiox; filed Dec. 27, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

JESSE HEYNE AND JACOB HEYNE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

STEAM BAKE-PAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 681,502, dated August27, 1901.

Application filed December 27, 1900. Serial. No. 41,209. (N0 mOdBlJ Toall whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J ESSE HEYNE and J A- COB HEYNE, citizens of theUnited States, residing at the city and county of Philadelphia, in theState of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Steam Bake-Pans, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, of which-Figure 1 is a perspective View, the lid of the pan being open. Fig. 2 isa longitudinal vertical section of the device, the lid of the pan beingclosed and a loaf of bread therein. Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspectiveView of the water-containing vessel removed.

Our invention relates to improvements in pans in which steamed bread,cake, 850., may

be baked.

What is known as steamed bread is at present produced by bakers havingwhat are known as steam-ovens, which are quite expensive and not adaptedfor use of housekeepers in the ordinary kitchen-range, nor are smallbakers able to produce such steamed bread, owing to the expense ofinstalling suitable steam-ovens.

Our object has been to provide a pan in which a loaf or loaves may bereadily steambaked in the ordinary range-oven.

To this end our invention consists of a pan having a lid or cover, andin one end or along one side of the pan is placed a vessel or tankcontaining water, the top of said vessel being adjacent to but below theunder side of the. lid of the pan and said top having openings orperforations therethrough for the escape of steam into the pan.

The invention also consists in certain details of constructionhereinafter pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, A is a pan, in this case made of sheetmetal, having a lid or cover 5 hinged to its rear side, as seen, andadapted to tightly close the pan when shut. In one end of the pan is avessel or tank 0, which is preferably removable, being held in place inthe end of the pan by vertical guides d, projecting from the sides ofthe latter. The vessel 0 is provided with a lid or cover e, which isperforated at f, as seen,

and when the said vessel is in place in the pan the lid 6 thereof willbe somewhat below the under side of the cover I) of the pan, thusaffording a space or passageway for steam between said lid e and coverb.

The manner of using our device is as fol-. lows: The vessel or tank 0 ispartially filled with water (or it may be a suitable flavoring liquid)and is inserted in the end of the pan,

. being held in position by the guides d. A

lump of dough H to form the loaf is placed in the pan and the cover I)is tightly shut and secured by means of a catch 1'. The pan is nowplaced in an oven, and as the heat evaporates the water in the vessel Othe steam therefrom passes through perforations f between the lid 01 andcover I) and into the doughholding portion of the pan and circulatestherethrough, thoroughly steaming the bread as it is being baked, whichis the object desired to be accomplished.

Our device may be quite easily and cheaply constructed, and when it isdesired to bake bread therein in the ordinary manner-that is, notsteamed-the vessel 0 may be emptied of water or removed and the pan usedjust as ordinary baking-pans.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent In a pan of the class described, thecombination with the pan proper provided with a cover, of awater-receptacle arranged in the pan proper and having a cover providedwith a series of perforations for exhausting the generated steam fromsaid receptacle into the pan proper, and inwardly-extendingvertically-disposed guides carried by the pan proper and embracing thewater-receptacle to retain the latter against displacement in the panproper.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto affixed our signatures this 13thday of November, A. D. 1900.

JESSE HEYNE. JACOB HEYNE.

Witnesses:

WALTER C. PUSEY, F. M. TULIN.

